Al Brady, WOR-FM New York NY October 17, 1969 (scoped) (0:14:41)

Scoped
… . . . in the home of the World Champion New York Mets . . . …

It’s October 17, 1969, and Al Brady (d. July 30, 2012, 67), is fired up over the New York Mets World Series Championship a day earlier. The wonderfully broad WOR-FM playlist in this hour includes 1969 Hitbounds as well as a 1960 Golden, and lots of great memories in-between.

Interesting commercial placement, too. The aircheck opens with a long commercial-free set, and then drops into song-spot-song for a quarter-hour. Al gets a little tongue-tied on a PSA, but overall, this is a great hour of original New York Drake radio.

There’s a movie spot for a completely forgettable film starring Patty Duke, and a friendly offer from Family Finance, Budweiser, and a major New York concert promoter.

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We want to thank the board of ReelRadio, Inc. for their stewardship since the passing of the founder Richard Irwin in 2018.  It has not been easy and they have maintained the exhibits for future generations to enjoy.

I met Richard Irwin, aka Uncle Ricky, when we were freshmen at East Carolina University.  We both had worked at local stations in our hometowns.  No one was more passionate about radio, especially Top 40 radio, than my friend Richard. 

Our goals with this site are to preserve the exhibits and make them available free of charge for people to enjoy.  Over time, we hope to add some airchecks to the site.  This will not happen immediately.  Time and resources will determine the future of new exhibits. 

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Richard Irwin’s hope was that his site would live on long after his passing. He said, “I hope REELRADIO will survive as my contribution to the ‘radio business’. The business is allowed to forget me, but the business should never forget the great era of radio that we celebrate here”.

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